]]>Call for Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prizehttps://historyofeconomics.org/call-for-joseph-dorfman-best-dissertation-prize/
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 16:09:44 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5944JOSEPH DORFMAN BEST DISSERTATION PRIZE The History of Economics Society is accepting nominations for its annual JOSEPH DORFMAN BEST DISSERTATION PRIZE for dissertations in the history of economic thought and methodology. In memory of Joseph Dorfman, historian of economic thought and Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, his family endowed a permanent fund...

The History of Economics Society is accepting nominations for its annual JOSEPH DORFMAN BEST DISSERTATION PRIZE for dissertations in the history of economic thought and methodology.

In memory of Joseph Dorfman, historian of economic thought and Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, his family endowed a permanent fund for the award. The winner will receive a stipend of $500 plus travel expenses up to $1000 to attend the presentation at the Society’s annual conference.

All dissertations in the history of economic thought and economic methodology that are written in English and completed during the two previous academic years (September 2016 to August 2018) are eligible. The selection committee considers only nominated dissertations. Self-nominations are permitted.

]]>Presidents of Societies and Journal Editors also appeal against Impact Factor suppressionhttps://historyofeconomics.org/presidents-of-societies-and-journal-editors-also-appeal-against-impact-factor-suppression/
Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:37:16 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5909After the initial appeals of EJHET jointly with JHET and of HEI editors, presidents of societies for the history of economic thought and journal editors around the world wrote to Clarivate appealing against Impact Factor suppression: Letter sent on July 30, 2018

]]>After the initial appeals of EJHET jointly with JHET and of HEI editors, presidents of societies for the history of economic thought and journal editors around the world wrote to Clarivate appealing against Impact Factor suppression:

]]>JHET and EJHET editors appeal against Impact Factor suppressionhttps://historyofeconomics.org/jhet-and-ejhet-editors-appeal-against-impact-factor-suppression/
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 17:58:13 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5821On June 26, Clarivate Analytics, the publisher of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and producer of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), released their 2018 report with the JIF data of 2017. In it, three history of economics journals were suppressed for one year (to be considered for re-inclusion in the next year) and got no...

]]>On June 26, Clarivate Analytics, the publisher of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and producer of the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), released their 2018 report with the JIF data of 2017. In it, three history of economics journals were suppressed for one year (to be considered for re-inclusion in the next year) and got no impact factor for 2017 due to an alleged “citation stacking:” History of Economic Ideas (HEI), the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (EJHET), and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET). In 2017, due to the inclusion of the second annual survey published in HEI in the JIF statistics (this didn’t happen with the first survey that they published in 2016), EJHET and JHET got more than 55% of their citations from HEI, most of this (circa 90%) coming only from that one survey. In a small field not used to many citations of current works and without substantial citations coming from outside, the survey produced an increase in citations that was flagged by the quantitative indicators of Clarivate Analytics.

The editors and the publisher of HEI have already appealed to Clarivate, as did Cambridge University Press. The editors of EJHET and JHET wrote a joint letter that was sent to Clarivate on July 2nd and now made publicly available here at the HES website.

We hope that this public statement not only clarifies the matter but also can be accessible to agencies and governmental bodies that do research evaluation in different countries and are going to use the 2017 JIF in their processes.

In conjunction with the editors of HEI and all the publishers, we are monitoring the situation closely and are ready to take further actions as needed.

]]>Call for Nominations: Best HES Conference Paper by a Young Scholarhttps://historyofeconomics.org/call-for-nominations-best-hes-conference-paper-by-a-young-scholar/
Tue, 05 Jun 2018 22:51:46 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5683The History of Economics Society instituted in 2017 a new award for the Best Conference Paper by a Young Scholar. Papers are eligible if (1) they were presented at the HES annual conference, and (2) the author qualifies as a Young Scholar: anyone who at the time of the conference is a student or anyone who received their...

Papers are eligible if (1) they were presented at the HES annual conference, and (2) the author qualifies as a Young Scholar: anyone who at the time of the conference is a student or anyone who received their PhD after January 1 of the second year prior to that of the HES meeting (for example, Jan. 2016 for the 2018 HES meeting).

The award is not limited to those that received Young Scholar funding for the conference. Anyone who qualifies as a Young Scholar is eligible. Self nominations are accepted.

Even if you are not a Young Scholar, you may nominate a paper or encourage the author to submit.

Those wishing to submit a paper should send the paper to hes@uwosh.edu by September 1. Please include in the email title that this is a submission for the Best Conference Paper.

]]>JHET vol. 2: newest issue available!https://historyofeconomics.org/jhet-vol-2-newest-issue-available/
Sat, 26 May 2018 16:26:32 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5621The June 2018 JHET issue contains the 2017 Presidential Address by Mauro Boianovsky, “Economists and their Travels, or the time when JFK sent Douglass North on a Mission to Brazil”, and articles: Francesco Martelloni, Manuela Mosca: “De Viti de Marco, the ‘European War,’ and President Wilson Olivier Rosell: “The Contribution of Robert Torrens to Ricardo’s...

]]>Call for Sessions Proposals ASSA2019https://historyofeconomics.org/call-sessions-proposals-assa2019/
Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:07:30 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5366The History of Economics Society (HES) will sponsor four sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings, January 4-6, 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA. The ASSA offers historians of economic thought an opportunity to present high-quality historical research to a wider audience of professional economists. Given this, preference will be given to proposals that are...

]]>The History of Economics Society (HES) will sponsor four sessions at the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings, January 4-6, 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA.

The ASSA offers historians of economic thought an opportunity to present high-quality historical research to a wider audience of professional economists. Given this, preference will be given to proposals that are most likely to interest the broader community.

Please remember proposals are invited for entire sessions, rather than single papers. Please submit session proposals, including abstracts for the proposed papers (approximately 1000 words), to me at m.j.boumans@uu.nl.

]]>New Editors for the Journal for the History of Economic Thoughthttps://historyofeconomics.org/new-editors-journal-history-economic-thought/
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 15:19:29 +0000https://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5317The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce that Jimena Hurtado and Pedro Garcia Duarte will become the next editors of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. They will begin their term on July 1, 2018. Dr. Hurtado is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes. She received her...

]]>The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce that Jimena Hurtado and Pedro Garcia Duarte will become the next editors of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. They will begin their term on July 1, 2018.

Dr. Hurtado is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad de los Andes. She received her PhD in Economics from the Université Paris X Nanterre. She has served as an associate editor for the Journal of the History of Economic Thought since 2016. In addition, she has been the vice-director and served on the advisory board for the Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought. She is a member of the editorial boards of Cahiers d’économie politique and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. Dr. Hurtado has published widely in three languages. Her research areas includes Adam Smith, the Classical Economists, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Latin American Economic Thought.

Dr. Duarte is a Professor of Economics at the University of São Paulo. He received his PhD in Economics from Duke University and his Livre-Docência from the University of São Paulo. Dr. Duarte’s research focuses on 20th century macroeconomics and monetary policy, including the work of Frank Ramsey. He is a leader in the establishment and subsequent organization of the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO) conferences. He currently serves on the editorial boards for OEconomia, Estudos Econômicos, History of Economic Thought and Policy, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of the History of Economic Thought and the History of Political Economy.

The History of Economics Society would like to thank Stephen Meardon for his excellent work as editor of Journal of History of Economic Thought. In his five years as editor, Dr. Meardon made significant advances in the web presence of the journal, tackled enormous hurdles to make the journal easily available on-line to HES members, and instituted the new Accepted Paper Series. The latter makes papers accepted to JHET immediately available to a wide audience. Under Dr. Meardon’s leadership the journal has achieved a 5-year impact factor of 0.419. We congratulate him on his accomplishments.

]]>Renew your membership!https://historyofeconomics.org/renew-your-membership/
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 18:16:50 +0000http://historyofeconomics.org/?p=5190Please login into your member area at the HES’s website and check if your membership has expired. If if has, stay logged in and you have two options: (1) click on the “Membership” button on the left column of your account and get a link to renewing your membership; (2) click on the “Join HES...

]]>Please login into your member area at the HES’s website and check if your membership has expired. If if has, stay logged in and you have two options: (1) click on the “Membership” button on the left column of your account and get a link to renewing your membership; (2) click on the “Join HES or Renew your membership now!” banner on the main page to access the membership page. Just add the desired membership option to your cart and proceed to payment, as explained.

One year and three year memberships are available. Discounted memberships are available to students and post docs as well economists from emerging nations. Renewing your membership this month to insure uninterrupted access to the Journal of the History of Economic Thought. So hurry up!